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Title: Earthquake-caused homeless
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption reads: "Through the night of the March 10, 1933 earthquake, thousands of men, women and children sat up beside bonfires in vacant lots and yards as they feared to enter their homes lest there be further temblors. The photo shows a group camped in a lot on Cedar Ave. in Long Beach. Other thousands, rendered homeless, walked in the streets."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057405
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4630 Long Beach Quake Scene.
CARL0000059302
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21216
Subject: Earthquakes--California, Southern
Disaster victims--California--Long Beach
Homeless--California--Long Beach
Campfires
Long Beach (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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